Biography
Yu Akue (Aku Yu) (1937-2007) is most famous lyricist in Japan. He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s, more than 20 of them reached the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and 7 singles sold more than a million copies. Over a half thousand of his compositions released as a single have entered the Japanese record chart, and they sold in excess of 68 million copies from 1968 to 2007, making him the most commercially successful Japanese lyricist which was followed by Matsumoto Takashi 松本 隆(50 million) and Komuro Tetsuya 小室 哲哉(42 million).
He wrote lyrics for ピンク・レディー、岩崎宏美、山本リンダ、フィンガー５、五木ひろし、八代亜紀、桜田淳子、森進一、小林旭、都はるみ、石川さゆり、和田アキ子、沢田研二、and so on.
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